Improvement in stove-pipe shelves



y R. G YONGE. l Stove-Pipe Shelf.

Patented March 5, 1878.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ROBERTG. YONGE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO EDWARD D. OOE, OF SAME ILAOE.

IMPROVEMENT :N .sTovE-PIPE "sl-inves.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,081, dated March 5, 1878 application led January 21, 1878.

To all .whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ROBERT G. YONGE, of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri7 have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Stove-Pipe Shelves; of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My improvement relates to that class of stove-pipe shelves which are so connected to the pipe as to be capable of swinging around to either side.

My improvement consists in forming the shelfof wire, of the construction shown, part of the wire forming the pintle on which the shelf is supported; said pintlepassing through a bracket-plate made to lit the pipe upon the inner side and grooved upon the outer side to receive a wire which surrounds the stove-pipe, and which serves to attach the plate to it.

Figure l is a perspective view, showin g two of the shelves attached at opposite sides of the stove-pipe, and extending radially therefrom. Fig. 2 is a top view, (enlarged,) showing the shelves extending tangentially from the pipe, so that they are side by side and form one large shelf.

A is the stove-pipe. B is a plate whose inner face is curved to fit the pipe. The plate B has a horizontal groove, b, in which lies the encircling wire O, which surrounds the pipe, and serves to secure the plate B to it. The ends of the wire C are turned into outwardlyprojecting ears c, through which passes ascrewbolt, D, by which the ears are drawn together to contract the wire C, upon the pipe. The plate B has ears b1 b2, through which passes the vertical wire E, which serves as a pintle or spindle, upon which the shelf is supported, and upon which it may be turned. The wire E is bent rectangularly outward at the upper end, and forms the rectangular horizontal frame El, and its end E2 is brought back and twisted around the shank, as sl'1own,'so as to form a firm attachment and stien the shank. The lower end of pintle E is bent outward, and the outwardly-extending part E3 forms the longitudinal brace of the shelf` the end E4 being twisted around the outer bar of the frame El at the middle of said bar.

The lateral braces are made from a separate piece, F, of wire whose middle is twisted around the brace E3, and whose ends f f are twisted around the side bars of frame El.

The frame El and the brace-bar E3 have bends e at the places where the brace-bars are twisted around them, so as to prevent the braces from slipping, and, in the case of the frame El, to prevent the twists from projecting above the level of the frame.

G is a small wire which encircles the pipe and which has a turn around the lower end of the pintle E, so as to assistin holding it in its vertical position.

The frame .El supports a net-work, H, of smallerwire, which is stretched upon the frame,

and one loop, h, of which is extended down from the shank at E2, and is twisted around the brace E, so as to form a tie-brace.

When the shelves project straight outward from the pipe, as shown in Fig. l, the shank rests in a notch, Vb3, of the ear b, so as to hold the shelf in this position. To enable the shelf to be turned to either side, the shank must be raised from the notch b3. Except for the notch b3, the top of ear b is flat and horizontal, so that the shelf will remain in any position in which it may be placed; but it is held in the positions shown in Figs. l and 2. As shown in Fig. 2,the two shelves stand side by side, the corners 0f the rectangular frame El resting against the stove-pipe A, and hook e', at the outer corner, holding' them together. The position of the two shelves on the pipe is such that they can be turned around side by side on either side of the pipe.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, with a stove-pipe, A, of the plate B, curved on its inner side to fit said pipe and constructed with a horizontal groove, b, ears b1 b2, and notch b3, the encircling-wireyG, and the shelf-support E, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The shelf` constructed of a single wire forming a hinge, E, shelf El, twist E2, and brace E3 E4, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the shelf E E1 E2 E3 E4, of the brace F, as set forth.

ROBERT G. YOVNGE.

In presence of- SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

